Re: putting the coronet on a diet
[Re: Not a bee]
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11/15/09 12:23 PM
11/15/09 12:23 PM
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Mr.Yuck
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I suppose the brackets don't wiegh that much.
bumber brackets are heavy. Most people make their own out of aluminum. Here's the thing...depending on your car and et the 100lbs you take off may or may not help squat. So before you spend $$$$ and time, ask yourself how much et am I going to get? and is it worth it. Upgrades to the drive train will get you better results than spending all that money on glass parts. 
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Re: putting the coronet on a diet
[Re: pacifica]
#525782
11/15/09 12:49 PM
11/15/09 12:49 PM
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Mr.Yuck
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" Here's the thing...depending on your car and et the 100lbs you take off may or may not help squat. So before you spend $$$$ and time, ask yourself how much et am I going to get? and is it worth it"
Seems to me the old rule of thumb is every 100 lbs. lost is worth a .10 of a second in E.T.
  
you'd think that but my 1st hand experience tells me different. then there's sprung vs. un-spriung weight. I had a 67 cornet. mild 440. It ran 12.90. I thought wow I'll drop some weight and see if I can get it to run 12.70. So I lost the PS, moved to a smaller optima battery in the trunk, changed out my 15x6 cragars and radials up front for 14x5.5 w/ bais plys (cragars w/ radials) were 45lbs heavier, raced w/ a little over a 1/4 tank than 1/2 and what happend??? same et, same mph everytime. Car was done at 12.90.
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Re: putting the coronet on a diet
[Re: Mr.Yuck]
#525783
11/15/09 01:23 PM
11/15/09 01:23 PM
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85_Ram_4speed
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Good points, also just moving the weight around will help also. 100 lbs placed right in the car can be more benificial than removing it. It depends on what you want to do with the car. Thefe are alot of things you can do, but some people dont want to compromise some safety on the car to get a lighter weight.
Outcast Dodge guy.
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Re: putting the coronet on a diet
[Re: Jwilli500]
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11/15/09 02:32 PM
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Brackets are a great place to lighten the load too. I would not want a glass bracket, but aluminum will work just fine. Heck, even just windowing out a set of stock brackets will take a bunch of wheight off. On my A-body, it had inner and outer brackets. The outers weighed less of the two pairs, so i took them and cut a bunch out of them. I think it was something silly like 20 lbs overall i took off. I was down to 3lbs a pair on my aluminim brackets when it was all said and done.
Outcast Dodge guy.
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